Archive-It Partner News, May 2024
May 23rd, 2024
by the Archiving & Data Services team
Community News
Join us in Chicago!
Aerial photo of the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library
Archive-It partners and friends are invited to join this year’s partner meeting on Wednesday, August 14th, to coincide with the Society of American Archivists’ ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2024 meeting in Chicago.
Archive-It’s annual partner meeting aims to strengthen the web archiving and digital preservation communities through facilitated discussion, knowledge sharing, and technology updates. We’re excited to host this in-person meeting with support from Chicago Public Library.
- Date: August 14, 2024
- Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Central
- Location: Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois
Register here to reserve your spot, propose program topics, and receive updates as the date approaches. We hope you can join us!
Community Calendar
Connect with our team at these upcoming events:
- ACA Virtual Conference, June 10-13 (Virtual)
- Computational Research with Web Archives in Latin American Studies, June 10, New Orleans
- Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Annual Conference, June 19-21, Montreal
- ALA Annual Conference, June 27-July 2, San Diego
- Community Webs Symposium, August 13, Chicago
- Archive-It Partner Meeting, August 14, Chicago
What we’re reading:
- Preserving Korean American History in Chicago – Julie Lynch discusses how the Chicago Public Library’s Korean American Archives (KAA) project is working to help preserve Korean American History in Chicago in partnership with community organizations in Chicago’s Korean American neighborhoods, CPL’s Archives and Special Collections Division, Young Park, and support from the Community Webs program.
- Digital scholarship and the web: Learning from Muslim communities online – Prof. Gary R. Bunt, Dr. Anna Grasso, and Dr. Muhammed Alamgir Ahmedaddress how they use ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) and Archive-It to study the role of online environments in Muslim communities.
- Reflections on the 2024 IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference – Friedel Geeraert reflects on this years conference and outlines three web archiving projects KBR | Royal Library of Belgium is working on.
- The contents of the Memoria.cat portal, preserved in the Archive-It digital library– The Memory and History Association of Manresa discusses how they used Archive-It to preserve the contents of their memoria.cat portal.
- When Online Content Disappears – a new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is, highlighting the importance of web archives.
Tech & Training
Deadline approaching: Export Archive-It reports from Google Analytics
Google Analytics will not host data from Archive-It accounts after June 30, 2024. Follow the instructions here to export reports for preservation and access: Export Archive-It reports from Google Analytics. Archive-It migrated accounts to a self-hosted analytics service in September 2023. Learn more about the new feature here: Track access to your web archives with Plausible Analytics.
Updated roadmap
We have been making some improvements and adjustments! Check out our recent development announcements and updated roadmap to learn more.
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We’re hiring
A warm welcome to our newest partners!
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